Coolies, Capital and Colonialism: Studies in Indian Labour HistoryRana P. Behal, Marcel van der Linden Cambridge University Press, 2006 - 286 pages Marriage choice plays a crucial role in the formation and decay of social classes. Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is thus central to social history. The study considers the factors determining who married whom, whether partner selection has changed over time and regional differences between Europe and South America. The volume also questions to what extent these factors have changed over the past three hundred years. The case studies presented are preceded by a state-of-the-art theoretical introduction on the determinants influencing trends in social endogamy. Each contributor has employed the same social-class scheme and thus the volume is the first comparative study of social endogamy in an historical context. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Indian Maritime Labourers in India | 21 |
The Brickmakers Strikes on the Ganges Canal in 18481849 | 47 |
Circulating Labour in PreColonial Colonial | 85 |
The Voyages of South Asian Seamen | 111 |
Power Structure Discipline and Labour in Assam Tea Plantations | 143 |
Following Custom? Representations of Community among | 173 |
Themes of Proletarian | 203 |
Ideas from South Asia | 229 |
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